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Extremely Rare Issue of Lopadusa

273, Lot: 2. Estimate $150.
Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off SICILY, Lopadusa. 4th century BC. Æ (15mm, 3.97 g, 7h). Head of Zeus-Serapis(?) right, diadem surmounted by lotus flower / Tunny right. Rossini 2 var. (rev. legend arrangement; same obv. die); CNS -; Peus 398, lot 141 (same dies). VF, green patina, some roughness. Extremely rare.


The rare coinage of Lopadusa (modern Lampedusa) is known in two similar types, one with a laureate male head and one with a diademed head, the later of which was only published in 2005.